by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people,” the great abolitionist and D.C. resident Frederick Douglass once wrote. More than a century later, the 705,000 residents of Washington, D.C.—nearly half of them Black—are still denied the full Continued

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